"Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident."
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"The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women."
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"Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net."
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"Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism."
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"We moralize among ruins."
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"Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases"
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"Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic."
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"Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all."
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"I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality."
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"Morality is not respectability."
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"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."
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"Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?"
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"I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality."
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"The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral."
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"The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard."
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"All effective actions require the passport of morality."
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"I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man."
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"The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual."
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"I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry."
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"That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values."
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